The Spanish loses her first set in the tournament, but moves on to the third round, in which she faces the Russian Kudermetova
Complicated match for Paula Badosa in the second round of Roland Garros, but the match was won. Slovenian Kaja Juvan, a poisoned candy at this point in the tournament, forced the Spaniard, who needed three sets (7-5, 3-6 and 6-2) to reach the third round and dream of conquering Paris to keep alive. Badosa escaped a trap called Juvan this Thursday, who, although outside the top 60 tennis players in the world, came out of a near-perfect week in Strasbourg. In the French capital, the Slovenian reached the final of the last tournament before Roland Garros and came close to surprise in the final against a three-time Grand Slam winner like Angelique Kerber.
“I expected a game like this,” Badosa explained after the game against Juvan. «She came with a lot of confidence from last week, where she won very good matches. I need more games to see myself with confidence, although I’m happy with today’s level,” the Catalan player acknowledged.
At the moment, Badosa already has two wins in Paris and more than three hours on the track. The two hours and 19 minutes used to beat Juvan, the most intense. With a lot of ups and downs, as the Spanish wasted to two service breaks in favor in the first set, which she led 5-2. From there, Juvan rowed to 5-5, before losing two pivotal matches for the game.
As Badosa took the set and made a play back that took advantage of the Slovenian, to equalize with a 6-3 recalling the games the Spaniards had lost on the gravel tour. With no chance of a break and too many unforced errors (she made nine in the second set), Badosa was forced into a third set in Suzanne Lenglen, threatening her status in the tournament, in which she survives as the only Spanish after the early eliminations of Garbiñe Muguruza, Nuria Parrizas and Cristina Bucsa.
The cloud grew as Juvan, who arrived from the second set with brutal sluggishness and confident of having beaten a ‘top ten’ like Karolina Pliskova less than a week ago, took over the first game and broke Badosa’s serve. Total alarm that disappeared with the reaction of the Catalan.
Four games in a row for Badosa’s racket, which did not waver and won eight of the last nine games of the game. With Juvan’s last long ball, Badosa turned to his box and pointed to his head, the one that had kept him upright when the Slovenian earthquake threatened his continuation in the tournament.
Badosa qualified for the third round of Roland Garros for the third time. The Spaniard has never lost at this stage of a Grand Slam tournament, beating her four times, twice in Paris, one at Wimbledon and one in Australia. Her rival will be the Russian Veronika Kudermetova, number 29 in the world. This player has a favorable ‘face to face’ with Badosa, because between 2019 and 2021 she defeated her three times. However, the two faces seen this year, in Indian Wells and Madrid, victory fell to Badosa’s side, who didn’t drop a set along the way.
Source: La Verdad
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